I realize these are indeed a retailer exclusive, but does the Hasbrotoyshop website ever carry exclusives at all? I don't recall them doing so, larger ships for example. But I was wondering if they might for figures. Probably not.

My friend from germany has these already however their waves are being released different he said. I dont believe he'll be getting any of the wave 9 figures unless he gets them from the US. 2 or 3 of the figures have the wrong bases packaged with them like the last wave had.

Yeah, a while back 4-inches.de had pictures from one of their German sponsors that had all of Waves 8, 9, and the Wal-Mart wave in stock. You can see the cards for Aurra and Kabe/Nabrun in the pic they had:

I also read from that same sponsor that this is how the Wal-Mart exclusive figures will be shipped to Wal-Mart, in these little endcap boxes with the following case assortment...